Ubuntu

Reboot loses monitor settings

Asked by Roger Smith

A Long time Linux / KDE user and new user of KDE Neon, using 5.13, and so far am very happy with it.
Except:
I have a desktop with dual monitors, identical monitors except one has HDMI and the other doesn't. AMD graphics card using the Radeon driver.

I set the monitors the way I want them, left and right and nominate the DVI connected monitor as Primary as it is on the left.

Every single time I boot the monitor settings have swapped the two monitors over, so the main monitor is the HDMI monitor on the right.

Also the ( I presume) first run monitor set up app pops up on the screen every time. Which I ignore and close (I did try it once and it turned my screen into gibberish) and return to display and monitor in settings to change them back to the way I want them. These settings simply do not retain the settings I set when I reboot.

Any ideas how I can make the setting a little more permanent. Recently came from Mint 18.3 (bailed with no KDE in 19) and previously a long time user of openSUSE and have never had this issue before, with the same desktop and monitors.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

sudo dmidecode -t 1; sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; xrandr

Thanks

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Roger Smith (roger-smith) said : 		#2

# dmidecode 3.0
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Product Name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Serial Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        UUID: 03000200-0400-0500-0006-000700080009
        Wake-up Type: Power Switch
        SKU Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Family: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Curacao PRO [Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:29 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7d00000-f7d3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
  *-display
       description: Display controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:28 memory:f7800000-f7bfffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: neon
Description: KDE neon User Edition 5.13
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
Linux roger-desktop 4.15.0-24-generic #26~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 15 14:35:08 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-3 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 531mm x 299mm
   1920x1080 60.00*+
   1680x1050 59.88
   1600x900 60.00
   1280x1024 75.02 60.02
   1280x800 59.91
   1152x864 75.00
   1280x720 60.00
   1024x768 75.03 60.00
   832x624 74.55
   800x600 75.00 60.32
   640x480 75.00 59.94
   720x400 70.08
DVI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 531mm x 299mm
   1920x1080 60.00*+
   1680x1050 59.88
   1600x900 60.00
   1280x1024 75.02 60.02
   1280x800 59.91
   1152x864 75.00
   1280x720 60.00
   1024x768 75.03 60.00
   832x624 74.55
   800x600 75.00 60.32
   640x480 75.00 59.94
   720x400 70.08
DVI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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